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The Beeswax Wreck is a shipwreck off the coast of the U.S. state of Oregon, discovered by Craig Andes near Cape Falcon in 2013 in Tillamook County. The ship, thought to be the Spanish Manila galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos that was wrecked in 1693, was carrying a large cargo of beeswax , lumps of which have been found scattered along Oregon's ...
The Spanish galleon Santo Cristo de Burgos wrecked on Nehalem Spit en route from Manila to Acapulco, loaded with a cargo of beeswax. The existence of the wreck was recorded in native oral history, with descendants of survivors including Chief Kilchis. It is the earliest known shipwreck in the Pacific Northwest. [1] [2] [3] Nehalem: General Warren
Shipwrecks which occurred off the coast of Oregon, or when seafaring vessels ran aground on the Oregon coast and wrecked. Pages in category "Shipwrecks of the Oregon coast" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
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Known as the beeswax wreck, it was probably the Santo Cristo de Burgos, which was lost in 1693 while sailing from the Philippines to Mexico. [4] [5] [6] Warren Vaughn, an early white settler in Tillamook, knew Kilchis and believed he was a descendant of one of the survivors of the wreck, and said that Kilchis himself claimed such ancestry.
Ongoing research into the so-called Beeswax wreck has determined that the galleon was probably the Santo Cristo de Burgos, voyage of 1693. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] Another theory for the inscribed stones was proposed by M. Wayne Jensen Jr., Director of the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum who thought it possible that they were from a cartographic ...
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Known as the beeswax wreck, it was probably the Santo Cristo de Burgos, which was lost in 1693 while sailing from the Philippines to Mexico. [7] [8] [9] Warren Vaughn, an early white settler in Tillamook, knew Kilchis and believed he was a descendant of one of the survivors of the wreck, and said that Kilchis himself claimed such ancestry. [10] [9]